By Robert Sanders, Media Relations, UC Berkeley News UC Berkeley cancer immunologists are teaming up with colleagues working on infectious disease to create a new Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Research Initiative, fueled by $7.5 million in funding from Aduro Biotech Inc., a Berkeley company that develops immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases. Aduro’s three years of

Bacterial actin MreB Featured Speaker: Jan Lowe, University of Cambridge April 27, 2016 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM 101 Barker Hall, UC Berkeley Sponsor: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

Why is cyclic di-AMP essential in Listeria monocytogenes?  Infectious Diseases and Immunity Seminar Series Speaker: Aaron Whiteley, Pornoy Lab, UC Berkeley April 25, 2016 | 10:00 – 11:00 AM 338 Koshland Hall, UC Berkeley Sponsored by CEND (Center for Emerging & Neglected Diseases), The Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases & Immunity

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications to participate in an International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) program that will provide a multidisciplinary research approach to malaria control and prevention through the integration of findings from clinical and field research.  The overarching goal of the ICEMR program is to establish research centers in

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for this grant opportunity: Grand Challenges China: New Interventions for Global Health. This challenge focuses on calls for innovative concepts for safe, effective, affordable and widely utilized interventions, such as vaccines and

UC Berkeley Center for Global Public Health (CGPH) and the Center for Emerging & Neglected Diseases (CEND) are partnering up to provide students with an opportunity to attend this year’s Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference for free! The conference will be held on April 9-11, 2016 in San Francisco. We are excited to offer

The annual Bay Area Microbial Pathogenesis Symposium (BAMPS 2016) will take place on Saturday March 19, 2016 at Genentech Hall on the Mission Bay Campus of UCSF from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Steven Lory from Harvard Medical School.  On-line registration is now open (http://mphd.ucsf.edu/bamps). As always, the conference is free. 

The U.S. Global Development Lab of USAID has partnered with UC Berkeley to create the Global Development Fellows Program, supporting cutting edge solutions to address pressing sustainable development challenges in countries where USAID operates. This exciting program is managed by the Berkeley Master of Development Practice. Applications are open to all UC Berkeley graduate students. 10

The U.S. Global Development Lab of USAID has partnered with UC Berkeley to create the Global Development Fellows Program, supporting cutting edge solutions to address pressing sustainable development challenges in countries where USAID operates. GDF receives additional support through a generous grant from the Chevron Corporation and from the Global Food Initiative of the University

University of South Florida – College of Medicine Division of Infectious Disease and College of Public Health Department of Global Health Assistant, Associate or Full Professor Infectious Disease and Global Health at the University of South Florida are recruiting for a tenure or tenure earning faculty position.  We welcome applicants in the areas of eukaryotic